There has been some very significant progress on the airframe restoration of Jack McDonald’s Hawker Demon, particularly the fitting of the woodwork on the fuselage. Since our last report in May 2016 most of the woodwork has been undertaken by very talented volunteer, Dave Saunders and the quality of the work and progress is excellent. […]

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The restoration of the RAAF Hawker Demon at the Australian Aviation Heritage Centre (QLD), Caboolture continues and Warbirds Online recently visited to take in the recent progress on this impressive rebuild for its owner Jack McDonald. The aircraft is now mounted on a trolley to facilitate movement about the hangar and allow easy access to […]

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Since our last report on the restoration of Jack McDonald’s Hawker Demon much change has taken place at Caboolture. The major event has been the relocation of the project to the new ”Beaufort Restoration”  hangar along with the DAP Beaufort , tools and other aircraft in the collection as well as Jack’s MiG 17 fighter.  […]

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Work continues at an astounding pace on the restoration of Jack McDonald’s Hawker Demon Warbird restoration project at Caboolture Queensland (Qld). Since our last report much work has been centered upon restoration of the fuselage structure of the aircraft and bringing together the required parts for the completion of the aircraft from Jack’s holding of […]

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The Hawker Demon was an important aircraft to the RAAF in the inter war years.  In 1934 a batch of 18 were ordered from the UK for use as general purpose/fighter aircraft. A further two batches of 36 and 10 were ordered giving a total of 64 aircraft. The Demon provided the RAAF with a […]

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